{"id":73837,"date":"2017-11-17T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T03:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/investigation-radioactive-leaks-at-illinois-nuclear-plants"},"modified":"2017-11-17T19:42:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T03:42:44","slug":"investigation-radioactive-leaks-at-illinois-nuclear-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/investigation-radioactive-leaks-at-illinois-nuclear-plants","title":{"rendered":"Investigation: Radioactive leaks at Illinois nuclear plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/investigation-radioactive-leaks-at-illinois-nuclear-plants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Radioactive waste continues to pour from Exelon\u2019s Illinois nuclear power plants more than a decade after the discovery of chronic leaks led to national outrage, a $1.2 million government settlement and a company vow to guard against future accidents, an investigation by a government watchdog group found.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2007, there have been at least 35 reported leaks, spills or other accidental releases in Illinois of water contaminated with radioactive tritium, a byproduct of nuclear power production and a carcinogen at high levels, a Better Government Association review of federal and state records shows.<\/p>\n<p>No fines were issued for the accidents, all of which were self-reported by the company.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/article\/20171117\/NEWS11\/171119887\/investigation-radioactive-leaks-at-illinois-nuclear-plants?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social\">http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/article\/20171117\/NEWS11\/17111...ium=Social<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radioactive waste continues to pour from Exelon\u2019s Illinois nuclear power plants more than a decade after the discovery of chronic leaks led to national outrage, a $1.2 million government settlement and a company vow to guard against future accidents, an investigation by a government watchdog group found. Since 2007, there have been at least 35 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}